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WOODS PROMOTION.
LWT managing director Lindsay Charlton has promoted Geraldine Woods to deputy director of broadcasting. The new position expands Woods' current commissioning role as broadcast executive to include liaison with the Granada
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OFF THE RECORD - Testing viewers' patience.
Those of you who spent much of your childhoods composing TV schedules in the sandpit may empathise with one David McKeran, an artist, who has devoted a good eight years (when
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THREE VIE FOR NW RADIO,
The Radio Authority had received three applications for the north-west regional digital multiplex licence by the closing date of 16 January. The Digital Radio Group is proposing to broadcast 10 programme
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MARSH POST VACANT.
Outgoing BBC Birmingham head of lifestyle and features Kate Marsh will not be directly replaced. Instead, the BBC will advertise for another managing editor, who will report to controller of leisure
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OFF THE RECORD - Lythgoe's Popstars stunt.
First class 'sell the sizzle, not the sausage' action from LWT's publicity machine for Popstars, the ITV show in which Nigel 'Sparkle' Lythgoe handpicks wannabe band members with more kindness than
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LUCKY WINS US PILOT.
Indie Lucky Dog is piloting a US version of comedy A Many Splintered Thing following a deal with Paramount. The comedy, based around the life of an adulterer, was originally made
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OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes.
Go flubbalub at the remarkable similarities between BBC TV tsar Mark Thompson and the recently resuscitated Bill and Ben. To avoid confusion, we'd like to point out that Bill and Ben
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THE LIFE OF MAMMALS.
Agency 422 has won the design contract for BBC natural history unit (NHU) flagship David Attenborough series, The Life of Mammals, writes Barbara Marshall.
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MOVIE LAUNCH.
Universal Studios Networks UK has announced that its new movie channel, The Studio, will launch on 1 February. The Studio is a joint-venture between Universal Studios and NTL and will be
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YTV Keeler scoop.
Yorkshire Television (YTV) is producing a major documentary on the Profumo scandal for ITV, featuring the first major TV interview with Christine Keeler (right). The 60-minute piece, dubbed internally as Keeler,
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ITC SANCTIONS NOTE.
The ITC has issued a new guidance note on revised procedures for statutory sanctions, replacing the series of notes put out since 1991. The document, which takes into account new legislation,
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INTERVIEW - The learning zone.
Anal fistulae, stinky feet, piles, streaming perspiration, underage sex, embarrassing children, self-help books, sex therapy. It's all Richard McKerrow's fault that programmes on these subjects have sparked the odd watercooler moment.
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HTV identity safe in ITV.
Carlton Channels chief executive Clive Jones has told HTV employees that rebranding the franchise would be 'unnecessary' because it is likely to be replaced by a new identity for the whole of the ITV network, writes Colin Robertson.
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POLITICAL HOT POTATO.
The BBC and ITV were this week dismissive of Labour's claims that obstacles remained in the way of a US-style TV election debate between the leaders of the three main political parties, writes John Lewis.
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TAYLOR TO HEAD METRO.
Broadcast equipment and service provider Metro Group has appointed a new managing director, Nicholas Taylor, to succeed company founder and chief executive David Pacy. Taylor joins the WPP-owned firm from communications
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Hamann to set up indie.
BBC head of documentaries and history Paul Hamann is to finalise a deal with Pearson TV in the next few weeks, setting up a new indie as a first step towards chief executive Richard Eyre's vision of an 'indie village', writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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ITV peak targets to go.
ITV This Week ditched its policy of setting peaktime audience targets and unveiled a package of measures aimed at maintaining its lead in mainstream and multichannel TV, writes Colin Robertson.
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Regional franchises losing orders to indies.
ITV is commissioning an increasing number of its independently produced programmes directly from suppliers rather than via ITV regional franchises, according to the ITC's latest Channel 3 Networking Arrangements report for 1999, writes Colin Robertson.
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Itel's Millichip joins Flextech.
Former Itel executive Jane Millichip is to join Flextech Television as a commissioning editor for women's channel Living, writes Lucy Rouse.Former journalist Millichip takes up the new post on 5 February
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FACILITY MOVES.
BBC Resources has poached digital effects editor Adrian Woodward from 422 Bristol and 3D animator Henry Lutman from Ricochet 4. Both join new design arm BBC MediaArc (Broadcast, 1.12.00) and will